You'll also find that an SP version of Star Soldier has been added. This special version of the game has you starting from Stage 8 with the ability to shoot in five directions and with a defensive shield at your disposal.

Will you be giving any of these a whirl today? Which game are you most excited to try out? Let us know in the usual spot.

Ryan can list the first 151 Pokémon all in order off by heart – a feat he calls his ‘party trick’ despite being such an introvert that he’d never be found anywhere near a party. He’d much rather just have a night in with Mario Kart and a pizza, and we can’t say we blame him.

@Enigminator lol, I got lots of nostalgia with BB. I think it was the 3rd or 4th game we got for the NES back when a game would have to last you 6 months haha. My brother and I played the crap out of it!

Awesome. I understand people feeling impatient (as am i) about wanting at least SNES games by now. But these are good games and in a couple of years the library is gonna be so big that it's well worth it. With both a ton of NES and SNES games and hopefully even more including N64 and DS and GBA. But nintendo is teaching the world how to have stupid patience lol.

They should split online and retro into 2 separate things and do both of them right. Instead of doing both poorly.
Online players don't necessarily care about retro games and visa versa. We shouldn't be paying for both if we don't want both.

2 completely different demographic of players being forced to supplement each other's paid services.

By this time in the Wii U's life we had not only SNES games, but also GBA games. We can talk all day about how it's different when they're doing a subscription service, but maybe if that's holding them back, they should offer the old Virtual Console on the side. This is getting ridiculous. The Switch is the perfect system for Virtual Console, this is really holding it back.

I'm predicting the first 3 SNES titles next month, which will be announced at E3. They've already dropped most, if not all, of the major 1st Party NES titles. Not sure what more they can really do here.

It's funny how people love to complain about NES games. Back during the Virtual Console releases, there were a ton of complaints about NES games being overpriced. Here's the solution. We get a growing library with our online subscription for a reasonable yearly fee. I know people love to gripe, myself included, but this is getting tired. It's not like Nintendo is forcing anyone to buy their service.

Kool...I shall be giving these a spin soon. As someone who completely ignored the NES in favour of the Master System I can appreciate what treats were on there now. I would have never bought any of these on virtual console, I appreciate being able to dip in and out of them for peanuts.

I’m just waiting on the Castlevania Collection, and got Mario Maker 2 completely paid off. The NES service is getting a little cold, and probably gonna get colder and dustier for me. Not that these are bad games, I just have a full library of other things to play. I smashed my Marios and Zeldas, and revisited Startropics for a little while. Hope we get Startropics 2 and a few others... but the hype of the slow dripped NESflix might have reached its peak. I nolonger have energy to be negative about it. Think the biggest problem, still for me, even with a LAN cable, is all the horrible lag while trying to play stuff like Mario 3 with an online buddy.

@HexagonSunBut at least with vc you could create your own collection and you wouldn't have to give them up after s certain period of time nor would you need to subscribe. You pay once for a game and your done. With switch online you pay for the same games over and over, even if new games are added you are still paying for the same older ones as well! Wouldn't just having the ones you want to play on your system be better?!

@GameOtaku I get what you're saying. Since the VC was digital only, and bound to a single console, you don't really get to keep them forever. You can only keep them as long as your console survives and you back up your games. For the price of four VC NES games I get a growing library of games for a year. I don't know about you, but I ended up spending hundreds on the Wii, 3DS, and Wii U VC. Often buying the same games again on different platforms. In the long run this service is way cheaper. I'm hopeful we'll eventually get SNES and Gameboy games on the service. I would gladly pay for a premium service that offered N64, GameCube and Wii games. Though I could see Nintendo preferring to remaster GameCube and Wii games. I really want N64 on Switch. I can be patient and wait. I'm sure they'll come in some way eventually. The service platform definitely isn't for everyone. You've got to have interest in several titles for it to be worth it.

@HexagonSunThe best solution as I've been preaching for a while now is a unified vc for 3ds/wiiu/switch. For the sub you could play anything as long as you have the sub and if you don't your purchases rollover and you can buy and curate your own collection. Wouldn't that solve mostly all of the problems?

@GameOtaku I agree and I would love to see something along those lines, but I'm doubtful it would happen. I think the whole reason Nintendo got rid of the VC is because it diminishes the allure of indie games. It's in Nintendo's best interest to keep indie developers happy. When there are well known and loved VC games that beat the quality of indie games, what do you think most people will choose? What I would like to see is collections of Nintendo's retro catalog sold on cartridge. Then I would really own it.

@HexagonSunI'd counter that the amount of indies a week is ridiculous and most of them are subpar. You may have some gems but mostly coal. $5 for a game I have nostalgia for warts and all Vs a newer Indy title for the same price that's just a quick cash grab. Everything on the shop is competing with everything else. If it is a quality game tge sales will show for themselves (granted if a bad game goes on a deep sale it will hit the charts.).

@GameOtaku No doubt there's a lot of garbage on the eShop. There's also a lot of quality games. I still think the point stands. Indie developers don't want to compete with Nintendo's own back catalog. It could scare away developers from even risking an eShop release. VC games are at the top of the charts for Wii, 3DS, and Wii U digital stores. There are still other ways we could see these games released. Mini consoles and NSO are a couple. Compilation collections could be another. As much as I would love to see all my favorite Nintendo games from past consoles release on Switch, I just don't think it will be in the form of the Virtual Console.